Met Micheal Martin (Fianna Fail leader and former minister) at a do in Cork.
I: we did meet before in 2005, on a Questions and Anwers programme after the 2004 Citizenship Referendum, when you told me you knew a Nigerian woman who had quintuplets, had one in Nigeria and hopped on a plane to have the other four in Ireland (see After Optimism, Lentin and McVeigh, 2006, p. 101)
Martin: Oh, yes, I remember. I actually got a letter from an obstetrician about it…
I: But Micheal, how logical can this be?
Martin: No, really… He wrote to me that something had to be done about all these women coming to have babies in Ireland…
I: But…
Martin: Believe me, I can show you the letter
I raise my eyebrows, but Martin is not embarrased at all…
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